DCHP-3

coppermine region

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the region of the Coppermine River, Mackenzie District, where native copper is to be found.

Quotations

1963
To the north was a bleak and barren land once occupied by a tribe known as the Yellowknives, natives who in the long ago had fashioned spears and knives from the strange yellow metal they found in the coppermine region to the northeast.